Vox Populi Gallery. 319 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107

Jacque Liu

Travel has played an important role in my life. Much of my work - whether site-specific installation or drawing with Mylar and paper - stems from a desire to understand the notion of place. This seems rooted in the ever-evolving condition of having relocated around the globe (born in Taipei, Taiwan; raised in St. Louis; two years of adulthood in Germany; four years in Metro Detroit Area; now living in Philadelphia, et al). To understand place, my eye gravitates to a more microcosmic scale, often focusing on architectural elements, such as windows, doors, vents, staircases, chairs and abandoned houses in the vastness of a cityscape. My work, following my eye, becomes an abstraction of details within my encountered landscapes. The process is personal. I recast the imprints of my history of places, but I also re-contextualize a history (whether real or imagined) of the object or site at hand. The idea is to begin with the mundane and to give some new form of engagement to these objects and sites. For more work and words, jacqueliu.com

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